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NIKE , in Greek mythology, the goddess of victory (Gr. vircrl). She does not appear personified in Homer; in Hesiod (Theog. 384) she is the daughter of the giant Pallas and Styx, and is sent to fight on the side of Zeus against the Titans. Nike does not appear to have been the object of a separate cult at Athens. She was at first inseparably 'connected and confounded with Pallas Athena
Athena
victor in a competition, since her functions referred not only to success in war, but to all other human undertakings. In fact, Nike gradually came to be recognized as a sort of mediator of success between gods and men.At Rome the goddess of victory (Victoria) was worshipped from the earliest times. Evander was said to have erected a temple in her honour on the Palatine before the foundation of Rome itself ( Dion
firm hold over the Roman mind, and her popularity lasted till the end of paganism. Special
circus , and generals erected statues of her after a successful campaign. She came to be regarded as the protecting goddess of the senate, and her statue (originally brought from Tarentum and set up by Augustus
Cassius li. 22; Suetonius, Aug. zoo) was She cause of the final combat between Christianity and paganism towards the end of the 4th century. Victoria had altars in camp, a special
See A. Baudrillart, Les Divinites de la victoire en Grece et en Italie (1894), whose view that in the 5th century Nike became detached from Athena, although Athena Nike still continued to exist, is supported by Miss J. E. Harrison (Classical Review, April 1895) and L. R. Farnell (Cults of the Greek States, i., 1896), but opposed by E. Sikes (C.R., June 1895), who holds that " while Nike was a late
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In the article GREEK ART, fig. 32 represents Nike pouring water over a sacrificial ox; fig. 36 the floating Nike of Paeonius; figs. 61, 62 (Pl. iii.), the winged Nike of Samothrace; the running or flying figure (fig. 19) is also possibly a Nike. End of Article: NIKE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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